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  • This is Zionism

    During a previous harvest she had to be taken to hospital after she was hit over the head with an iron bar by an Israeli security guard from one of the nearby settlements. On another occasion settlers threw stones and human excreta at her and other volunteers, while shooting into the air. (full article…)

  • Why Only 80?

    “We Jewish and Arab teens from throughout Israel hereby announce that we object to Israel’s oppressive policy in the occupied territories and within the state of Israel, and therefore we will refuse to take part in these activities, which are carried out in our name by the Israel Defense Army,” says the letter, signed by [...]

  • This is Zionism.

    Israeli youth who refuse to cooperate with Israel’s military occupation are sent into a lengthy and relentless labyrinth of court martials and consecutive jail terms in what Israeli lawyer Michael Sfard, representing Shministim, calls a “price tag” meant to deter other young Israelis from non-participation. “Otherwise,” he says, “[the Israeli government's] argument says, everyone — [...]

  • Arabs Ungrateful

    Commander Aharon Franco slams Arab protestors, calls them ‘ungrateful’ for rioting during High Holidays after allowing to attend Ramadan prayers; says steps will be taken against Sheikh Raed Salah who is believed to have instigated recent rioting (full article…) He’s right. They should grateful for any crumb Israel tosses to them. In fact, they should [...]

  • Not That There Was Much Opposition Anyway

    A new report from Adalah shows how the courts and police attempted to stamp out opposition to Operation Cast Lead. “This is a time of war, and every incident harms the people’s morale.” This was not a sentence in a right-wing journal, but rather a statement by an Israel Police representative during Operation Cast Lead [...]

  • Unreasonable Sympathy

    The real question is why the image of an Israeli soldier, agonizing and crying, is so appealing to festival curators and audiences of the western world? When we find the answer to this question, we will be able to comprehend the unreasonable, international sympathy that the state of Israel is awarded, regardless of its actions, [...]

  • Why He Threw the Shoe

    I am not a hero. But I have a point of view. I have a stance. It humiliated me to see my country humiliated; and to see my Baghdad burned, my people killed. Thousands of tragic pictures remained in my head, pushing me towards the path of confrontation. The scandal of Abu Ghraib. The massacre [...]

  • Killing Refugees

    More than 80 refugees were killed in a government raid against a camp in north Yemen where Shi’ite rebels are challenging President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a camp source and news reports said on Thursday. (full article…)

  • This is Zionism

    Khatib claims a soldier then hit him from behind with the butt of his rifle. “Then the nightmare began,” he said. “All of the soldiers in the apartment began to beat me with everything possible – hands, rifles, feet. They kicked me in the head, the face, the stomach.” (full article…)

  • How To Kill an International Student Program

    A decision by the University of Wyoming to name a new center for international students for former Vice President Dick Cheney is drawing criticism from people who say Cheney’s support for the Iraq war and harsh interrogation techniques should disqualify him from the distinction. The former vice president and wife Lynne are expected to attend [...]

  • The Shoe Felt ‘Round the World

    Zaidi’s actions during the former US president’s swansong visit to Iraq last December have not stopped reverberating in the nine months since. Next Monday, when the journalist walks out of prison, his 10 raging seconds, which came to define his country’s last six miserable years, are set to take on a new life even more [...]

  • The Destruction of Nahr al-Bared

    Palestinian factions staged protests in refugee camps all across the country on Friday to condemn the ongoing delay in reconstructing the battered northern refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared. Demonstrations were held in Ain al-Hilweh, near the southern coastal city of Sidon, al-Buss, near the port city of Tyre, and Chatila on the outskirts of the [...]

  • Illegal Detention

    Nineteen foreign activists of the pro-Palestinian Free Gaza Movement were being held in Israel awaiting deportation on Thursday, two days after the Israeli Navy seized control of their boat off Gaza. (more…)

  • Good

    Unwavering support for Israeli policy has eroded dramatically both on American college campuses and within the United States as a whole, according to a group of American university professors who on Sunday concluded an academic exchange program here, sponsored by the Yitzhak Rabin Center. (more…)

  • Virtually No Coverage

    These reasons explain why over recent weeks while the Iran elections were happening there has been virtually no coverage in most media of demonstrations numbering in the tens of thousands in Georgia or Peru. It has even been reported in Peru that dozens of persons have been killed during the protests, or “clashes” as they’ve [...]

  • “We Don’t Need No” …Zionism

    The legendary rocker and co-founder of Pink Floyd says he would give a concert in a flash if Israel’s West Bank wall is torn down. Roger Waters made the promise Tuesday during a visit to a Palestinian refugee camp that is hemmed in by the separation barrier’s tall slabs of cement. The 65-year-old co-wrote Pink [...]

  • Boycott

    Motorola, Caterpillar, Veolia, the Tesco supermarket chain, and other companies across the world that do business with Israel are suffering losses due to a global boycott in support of Palestinian rights. (more…)

  • Okinawa

    Okinawa is currently home to approximately 25,000 U.S. service members and their dependents. These soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen are a key component of the United States’ and Japan’s defense strategy. We greatly appreciate the generosity of the people of Okinawa and their role as host to U.S. forces in Japan. (more…) What he fails [...]

  • Donald Rumsfeld, War Criminal

    Video has emerged showing two protesters confronting former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at the White House Correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night. As Rumsfeld entered the building, Desiree Fairooz and Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK were there to greet him. Desiree Fairooz: “War criminal! War criminal! War criminal! Arrest this man! Arrest the war criminal! I wish [...]

  • What the Pope Could Not Tolerate

    “Israel destroyed our home, exiled our people, built settlements, ruined the Muslim holy sites, and slaughtered women, children and senior citizens in Gaza,” he continued. (more…) Those present in the hall attempted to silence him, but he continued, slamming Israel for “destroying Palestinian cities and erecting settlements on Palestinian land. Jerusalem will remain the Palestinian [...]

  • Occupation Flu

    Dozens of Palestinian and foreign activists sporting protective face masks demonstrated on Friday against the “occupation flu” from Israel they said was worse than swine flu. (more…)

  • Crime in Israel

    His “crime” was trying to stop a military bulldozer from destroying the homes of Palestinian Bedouins from Um El Hir in the South Hebron region. These Palestinians have been under Israeli occupation for almost 42 years; they still live without electricity, running water and other basic services and are continuously harassed by Jewish settlers and [...]

  • This is Zionism

    Police detain suspects, one of them a 70-year-old woman, seize computers used to upload material to website encouraging draft-dodging (more…)

  • Hamas Thugs

    Repressive actions are being carried out by de facto government forces in the Gaza Strip against Fatah Youth members preparing to mark Prisoners Day in Rafah, head of the youth council in the Gaza Strip Mahmoud Qanan said Thursday. (more…)

  • Australian Academics Call For Boycott of Israel

    We scholars, inspired by the wishes of Palestinian civil society, call upon international civil society organizations and people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era. We appeal to you to pressure your respective states to [...]

  • This is Zionism

    The Israeli police were following the orders of Israel’s Public Security Minister Avi Dichter to use whatever force was necessary to prevent the Palestinian Authority (PA) from celebrating “Jerusalem as the capital of Arabic culture for 2009.” The tough crackdown, on what on the surface appeared to be a harmless and fun cultural event, underlines [...]

  • Arab Unrulies

    “The goal of the march is to make it clear to a group of unrulies in the Arab sector who is the owner of State of Israel,” said Itamar Ben Gvir, a former Kach Party activist and one of the organizers of the demonstration. (more…) Ben Gvir, an aid to radical MK Baruch Marzel, is [...]

  • Israeli Racism

    The demonstrators said pressure should be put on Hamas to release Shalit by worsening the conditions of the almost 11,000 Palestinians being held in Israeli jails. (more…) Just imagine if these people put all this effort towards demanding an end to the occupation.

  • The Puppet Government

    “It is unbelievable that, all over the world, people were supporting Gaza,” Yazid Khader, a spokesman for the movement, said last week. “Yet here on the West Bank people were unable to do so. We ask: will the blood spilled in Gaza be enough for the Palestinian Authority to move towards reconciliation with us?” (more…)

  • Suppressing Dissent

    According to Israeli police reports, at least 763 Israeli citizens, the majority of them Palestinian and 244 under 18 years old, have been arrested, imprisoned or detained for participating in such demonstrations. Most have been held and then released, but at least 30 of those arrested over the past three weeks are still being held [...]

  • Israeli Democracy is Rotting

    Meanwhile, Israeli police admitted they arrested about 600 people involved in protests against the Gaza offensive, some of them for stone-throwing. Adalah lawyers said more than 200 people, most of them Arab, were still in jail. “We’re talking about mass arrests,” said Abeer Baker, adding that Israel was exploiting a 30-day window before an indictment [...]

  • Zero-Tolerance for Dissent

    International opprobrium is shrugged off, but it is not merely a case of not caring what the world thinks: the zero-tolerance for any questioning about the extent and nature of the war is directed also inward. Israel is a nation seemingly hell-bent not just on deterring its enemies but on deterring all troubling debate, a [...]

  • Power to the Shoe

    On Thursday, Dana M. Perino, the White House press secretary, said President Bush had urged the Iraqis “not to overreact, because he was not bothered by the incident, although it’s not appropriate for people to throw shoes at a press conference, at any leader.” (more…) I disagree—the shoe is the least Bush deserves for the [...]

  • Power to the Shoe

    Muntader is my brother and I know him very well. He does not apologise,” Udai al-Zaidi said. (more…) Sounds like a childhood regret…

  • Power to the Shoe

    Le lancer de chaussures du journaliste Mountazer Al-Zaïdi sur George Bush est d’ores et déjà qualifié de “moment historique” sur la blogosphère irakienne. Les vidéos de la séquence, les parodies et les jeux circulent de site en site et des blogueurs qui n’avaient pas posté depuis longtemps se sont remis à l’ouvrage. (more…)

  • Power to the Shoe

    The legislative session became so tumultuous that it prompted the speaker of Parliament, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, to announce his resignation, according to The Associated Press. (more…)

  • Power To the Shoe

    Far from a joke, many in the Mideast saw the act by an Iraqi journalist as heroic, expressing the deep, personal contempt many feel for the American leader they blame for years of bloodshed, chaos and the suffering of civilians. (more…)

  • Just a Shoe and Nothing More

    “No one should read anything more into it than what it was, which was an individual throwing a shoe,” Zahren said. (more…) That’s right. Just a shoe. So it would be silly to think that Iraqis are sick of the nightmarish carnage that continues to devastate their country. That’s just silly. It’s only a shoe.

  • Israel Has Plenty

    Greek authorities contacted Israel this weekend with an urgent request for teargas grenades to be used against the wave of riots that broke out in the country last week, Athens police reported on Sunday. (more…)

  • The relationship between the Greek people and their police force is strained at best. In the 1930s, it was the police who oppressed the labour movement under Fascism and collaborated with the Germans and they were seen as the agents of the military dictatorship that ended with a student uprising in 1974. (more…)

  • Maria Margaronis: Greece in Flames, Again

    It began with the death of a child, a 15-year-old schoolboy with a chubby face and long brown curls and a black punk-rock T-shirt–an ordinary teenager trying to be cool. Though he was privately educated in a wealthy Athens suburb, Alexis Grigoropoulos didn’t hang out at the mall. On Saturday night he was downtown in [...]

  • Authoritarian Inanity & Singing Policemen

    The inanity of authoritarian movements can never be underestimated. The horrific shooting by Hamas of unarmed demonstrators is only the latest example of the Islamist group’s unwillingness or inability to control its forces in the Gaza Strip. Squandering the general support they enjoyed here by forcibly seizing control of the Strip last June, many Gazans [...]

  • Live From Gaza City

    As I write this, thousands of pro-Fatah demonstrators are pouring through the streets of Gaza City, collecting at al-Anzar park near Islamic University to commemorate the third anniversary of Yassir Arafat’s death. Already, Hamas thugs have killed one and injured dozens of demonstrators. Because these events are literally occurring just blocks away from my flat, [...]

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